Garcia II of Galicia

Garcia II of Galicia (1042-22 March 1090) was King of Galicia from 1065 to 1071, succeeding Fernando I of Leon and preceding Sancho II of Castile.

Biography
Garcia was born in 1042, the youngest of Fernando I of Leon and Sancha of Leon's three sons and the younger brother of Sancho II of Castile and Alfonso VI of Castile. In 1065, he was granted the Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal when his father died, and he called himself "King of Galicia and Portugal", the first monarch to use the title "King of Portugal". In 1071, he defeated and killed the rebellious Portuguese count Nuno Mendes at the Battle of Pedroso, but his brothers Sancho and Alfonso defeated him that same year and partitioned his kingdom, forcing him to flee to Seville. After Sancho's assassination in 1072, Garcia returned to Galicia, but he was imprisoned until his death in 1090.